(News release republished here with permission from IASWCD.) Indianapolis, IN, January 24, 2024 - Earlier this month, several Hoosiers...

Indianapolis, IN, November 3, 2023 - Curtis Knueven, Acting State Conservationist for USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service...

Bloomington, IN, November 1, 2023 - The Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape (SISL) partnership is excited to announce approval of a...

by David Doctorian, Acting State Conservationist Indiana NRCS Tuesday, March 21, 2023 Since its founding as the Soil Conservation Service...

INDIANA (Dec. 20, 2022) — Funding is now available from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Indiana to help Western...

Indianapolis Dec. 13, 2022– USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Acting State Conservationist Dan Hovland announced today...

John Jamerson and Denise Greer Jamerson live and farm in Lyles Station, Indiana - an historic Black farming community. For years, they...

Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative (CCSI) is largely funded through public and private organizations. We are extremely grateful to...

Registration for the INField Advantage (INFA) Cover Crop Trial Program is open now until August 1, 2022. The purpose of the INFA Cover...

What is meant by the term mental health? Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we...

The Indiana Black Loam Conference is a pilot project by Legacy Taste of the Garden to host workshops in Evansville (2/19), Fort Wayne...

Recently, a generous person made an anonymous donation to the Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative in memory of Travis Wenning. How...

World Soil Day is held annually on 5 December as a means to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and to advocate for the...

It’s nice to have a special day of the year to spend with family and friends, acknowledging how fortunate we truly are. We all have so...

A recent CCSI-HAT Soil Health Podcast: “Cover Crops in the River Bottoms?!”, contains valuable tips for utilizing cover crops in river...

The screen shot above was from a tweet earlier in the week. https://twitter.com/CCSI_IN/status/1448265604306243584?s=20 There was...

Did you know you can subscribe to receive free email and text message updates from your local USDA Service Center? Whether you’re in the...

CCSI is thrilled to share this joint news release from the Indiana State Department of Agriculture and the Natural Resources Conservation...

Pollinator Week is June 20 – 26. Pollinator Week is an annual event celebrated internationally in support of pollinator health. CCSI is...

In a recent Hoosier Ag Today/CCSI Soil Health Podcast, Stephen Meyers of Purdue Horticulture and Dan Perkins of Perkins Good Earth Farm...